NATURE NOTES
Mint Moth
June is a great month for wildlife watching, with warmer sunny days enabling sightings of a wide variety of vertebrates and invertebrates. Many butterflies and moths are on the wing now and throughout the summer and autumn, including our spectacular and largest of British moths the Hawk-moth species.
Six-spot Burnet Moth
Elephant Hawk Moth
Some of the smaller day-flying moths such as the Six-spot Burnet are particularly attracted to knapweed flowers. 52
New plant growth provides cover for many insects such as the familiar Shieldbugs. There are around forty recorded British species, several of which are commonly encountered locally, including the Green Shieldbug. It feeds on unripe seeds and, confusingly, is brown in winter.
